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*Contemplating the Grand Canyon I have the arrogance to ask I had the innocence to know To find out who was running                   the show I had the gabble to gab The gab and go The nannywork nonsense To gaither and gather To confront The efette erudites Awake awan Go foorth Find the source Of the sorceress Tell her I said stop Muddling Garner nough spunk to confront Their woke bunks Up and at ‘em You thump lumpidy lumps Work not woke things To do Enough of your tomfooler

(a new tongue in cheek Nursery Rhyme with a tiny bit oh humors salt) There once was a dog, A schizophrenic dog,* That barked and barked, And randomly barked Barked and barked A persistent useless cross-eyed bark. He barked at his shadow, He barked at his feet, He barked at his Momma’s teat. He barked in the morning, Daybreak till Dark, Fool, barked Into the night, Bark, bark, bark, No foe in sight. 10, 2 and 4, Like a Dr Pepper whore, The friggin’ fool, Barked, barked and bar

So today “Out the Blue,” Was told by noble soles Who think the pill is God “You’ve got just two more months to live!” Sure’s a brick hit home Holy hell!!! BAM!!! All Hope lost Been handed me. So I think I’ll keep my dignity And die upon my hill Excalibur in Hand let Hospice Do its dirty deed Am off to Nirvana Land. I still don’t know The time nor place Nor Whence nor Where Nor Why nor How I’ll Plow that one last row Now I face my fate! Amen🙏🏻 tom tenbrunsel Carl Sandburg po

What is ambiance the spice of life? Turn on a glowing light In a darkened room Play me a Melody Surround yourself with family and friends take care. Compliments add to ambiance Take your honey to a nice restaurant Order the best. Well I can roll at the table. Or fav snack for two on the rug by the fireplace with bubbly Tell someone you love them. Thank her for being in your life. Turn off the light tomorrow tenbrunsel Poet Laureate of Romance Author’s Note: scroll down to “Co

Time is eternity At times it slips away To time another day Perhaps to time another universe What time is it anyway? Your way Yesterday or today Is time infinity An infant Or about to end-fant? tom tenbrunsel Timely Poet Laureat

*Tom Secretarski typewriters his work on my old Royal I don’t know which Near, dear or dead death it was But it was EMERGENCY EMERGENCY ROOM! STAT! I was here one minute Lucid Gone the next Awake Oblivious To what had occurred They Twelve in the ER Hovered about Busily With some looking on with Puzzling expressions Like I had tossed, passed out Been suctioned Gasped air again Awakened startling myself That I Maby Just mayby I Had gone, returned Maby came went returned Then ba

There are 300 therapies but only 30 work Psychotherapy Counseling Biofeedback Yoga & Meditation Massage Therap Holistic Journaling Art & Music Therapy Aroma Therapy Equine & Pet Therapy Nutritional Therapy Smoking Cessation Occupational Therapy Physical Therapy Hospice Care “Dr T” Poet Laureate of Psychology

Be Prepared Be wise Plan ahead Don’t play catch up With untoward disaster Shelter Layers Water Food Stuff Power Communication Protection Got it✔️ Roman Wolfe Be Prepared

Let’s stretch our imaginations together for a moment—step outside the confines of conventional cosmology and dare to envision something wildly different. What if the vast expanse of the universe wasn’t a seamless, Einsteinian bubble inflating uniformly, but instead a mosaic of similarly charged or not, accessible “slates” stacked, side-by-side containers if you will, each one an entirely independent realm? Picture these slates not as our familiar galaxies swirling in cosmic

*Original painting for my 2025 Christmas Card by Daniel Flynn, philosopher, artistist extrodinier MY CHRISTMAS WISH FOR YOU Standing outdoors mid past Christmas Eve midnight In my warm scarlet Parker Arms folded with my walker nearby A visible cold chilled breath looking skyward Searching the sky for the Christmas Star, A warmth, suddenly wraps me. I am enveloped in the Kindness goodness and prayers of the love And good wishes of those family and friends and caregivers who ha

“So, Mary, what say we call him Emmanuel?” They also considered: 🎶Wonderful, 🎶Counselor, 🎶Almighty God, 🎶the Everlasting Father, 🎶the Prince of Peace🎶 They settled on Jesus🙏🏻 and that worked out just fine “… and there a babe in swaddling clothes on hay - Why does this story never wear out?” Carl Sandburg on the proof of God. tom tenbrunsel Carl Sandburg Poet 2023

Charleston Honey! What is behind door four? For We’re desperately in need of new Joy I had hoped for a boy.  (or girl) tom tenbrunsel Poet Laureate of Mountain Haiku

Who dares Who dares to look for yourself Along your journey Who dares to challenge fate What will you find A word to the wise Who are you really Your image of yourself Or their image of you? Which are you? So go Look for yourself Perhaps Carl Jung was right insisting you confront your anima The opposite leads to one’s self Or simply Decarte’s “Cogito ergo sum” Or Occam’s razor is the simplest solution Question yourself starting with advice of Socrates Poor Socrates, perhaps h

过去两周，我的网站获得了 500 次中文访问！虽然没有人注册，但我的作品能被多元文化分享，这让我倍感鼓舞。 请告诉我你们是否有特殊需求，以及你们最喜欢哪种类型的诗歌。比如，我的作品是否被翻译成你们喜欢的语言？你们最喜欢我的哪幅摄影诗？请在每首诗下方的评论区留言，并致以问候🙏🏻。 汤姆·滕布伦塞尔 卡尔·桑德堡作家 2023 亲爱的中国读者们，请告诉我你们的想法 TO MY CHINESE FOLLOWERS: ！In the past two weeks I have had 500 Chinese hits on my website! None take the effort to sign up , but I am encouraged my work poems are being shared multiculturally. Please! Please let me know of any special needs interests and which type poetry you like best. Like is

There have been clans tribes and family and folk Who lived on the land Th land referred to as Appalachia No utilities in those sacred hills In the olden days Just centuries of folk Making it Outside the crowds Life’s basic survival skills They learned and knew them well there were lots of stews and roasted game on an open flame Most recently Appalachians And a culture came into it’s own As a separate and unique culture for sure Survival skills? Yep! Not many really know Appal

A perfect Union We began as a perfect Union of unlike souls And somewhere along the way to Nirvana Something happened??? The world today seems different Don’t you think? What is happened What is different Why so suspicious of each other So negative Why so easy to snap Where did we leave love and togetherness Where the golden good neighborliness The agreeing positiveness Who what why when How’d this come about? Chance? Planned? Then by whom THE HYPEN We were a settled nation

I think of you And Jay As you head your ways In life This 2025 move-in day To fine colleges Of different colors And new ventures Good luck you two You are well prepared My advice check six Be safe, happy, exude joy Don’t take any wooden nickels Hold close your beliefs Trust your instincts For you are so ready for this Remember life Is best full of humor Love and chuckles I hope your spirits criss-cross. Papa Author’s Note: Don’t lose sight of the true reason we are put on ear

Half brain Whole brain Some brain No brain Left brain Right brain Wrong brain Brain strain Main brain Lame brain Brain drain Which are you Take your pick Quick whitt Nit witt Brainiac In a gunny sack tom tenbrunsel Poet Laureate of Appalachian Freestyle

Dear Lord today I pray Make me a better man today than my raggedy- Grumpy- Frustrated- Short with people Yesterday self Help, me Lord to not be That  son-of -bitch Again If possible I mean I slept good Got up Hit the pot straight on Till I stepped in it And just like that Slipped back into my potty mouth self Damn My potty mouth became a flame thrower JEEEZZZZ! What? Say what? One day Att a time. What about all those 83 years Of days? Forgiven? The hell you say! Damn, Shake o

*finger painting “Rant” by Anne Hayden LEFTARDS Lefties are irascible that’s all there is to that their heads are full of cotton hay and rags. They are nothing but exasperating, irritating, agitating, madding and infuriating hacks LGBTQRSTUVWXYXZLSMFT+ Fly your woke house flags inside you house. You can be queer.  Just don’t shove it down my throat. Don’t broadcast to the neighbors and the world that you are friggin’ odd ball. BLM Do you know that BLM received $4 billion USAI